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FIDE Grand Prix 2015 Ends Today

From May 14 to 18, Khanty Mansiysk was stage to the fourth and last tournament of the current FIDE Grand Prix Series. A total of four tournament were carried out in the 2014/15 World Championship cycle, which is rather unusual, as previous Grand Prix Series were fought in six rounds. The FIDE has not provided explanation about this particular change, but chess experts speculate that not enough applications for hosting events were submitted.

A prize money fund of 120,000 EUR was available at every tournament, 20,000 EUR of which were the victors’ rewards. The winner and runner-up qualify for participating at the Candidates’ Tournament.

According to the rule set, each of the sixteen participating chess players compete in three out of four events.

Jakovenko won the tournament, however his performance was not good enough to secure one of the two qualifying slots. Nobody was able to surpass Caruana and Nakamura, which is why the two top-players deservedly earned the right to participate in the Candidates’ Tournament that is scheduled to run from March 9 to 28 2016 to bring forward Magnus Carlsen’s world championship challenger.